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Old 05-16-2010, 09:07 AM
 
Location: Phoenix, Sunnyslope area
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I have yet to really experience a Phoenix summer but I was told that it gets really hot around the mid part of May. So far I think it's been ideal - cool at night and warm enough in the day to wear t-shirts but not roasting hot. I hate the cold, and don't like rain or snow too much. It's too depressing. I'm glad we're out of the rain season and nice and warm and dry. Maybe I'll feel different when it starts getting over 100 but for now this weather is perfect.

 
Old 05-16-2010, 09:15 AM
 
Location: USA
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I have yet to really experience a Phoenix summer but I was told that it gets really hot around the mid part of May. So far I think it's been ideal - cool at night and warm enough in the day to wear t-shirts but not roasting hot. I hate the cold, and don't like rain or snow too much. It's too depressing. I'm glad we're out of the rain season and nice and warm and dry. Maybe I'll feel different when it starts getting over 100 but for now this weather is perfect.
Sort of. Its been wetter in the winters more recently, but Arizona's rainy season is in the summer. I've been here for so many years and rain floats over the city, but never really falls. It's scared of the heat island. Tucson on the other hand is a great example of monsoon action. The lightning, micro bursts, heavy rains, and the smell of the desert being washed to a squeaky clean status.

I believe summer is the rainy season for all near gulf states. Touching or not. I am honestly scared to see what kind of rain Texas and Florida gets from the oil filling the gulf.
 
Old 05-16-2010, 10:04 PM
 
Location: Honolulu/ Seattle-Bellevue/ Cupertino, Cali
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Tootsie.
Just to sum things up for you regarding comparing midwest summer heat to Arizona summer heat.

Arizona summer heat = DRY and hot

Midwest region summer heat = Damn hot and very HUMID.
 
Old 07-17-2010, 05:32 PM
 
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Anything over 100 is hot, however there is Northern AZ, such as Flagstaff, Az, Paige and several other cities that the Phoenix people flock to on the weekends to escape the heat.
Also, people travel during this time driving to Colorado and other cooler places. When it gets hot in S. AZ the hot get going.
How do you train your dog to go potty at night instead of daytime?
 
Old 07-17-2010, 05:38 PM
 
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They go up North to their cabins. They go visit Flagstaff, Pine, Strawberry, Munds Lake or Lake Mary (if it isn't dried up) They go to Slide Rock. They have numerous indoor water parks, movies theater, shopping mall, or they leave town and drive to Michigan for the heat and humidity, or Colorado. There is a whole culture evolved around the heat during the summer. Festivals, fairs ect at night, museums stay open till 10 or 11pm. Lots of things to do after the sun goes down. It is the sun. After it sets everybody is outside. Hotels with pools offer discounts.
 
Old 07-17-2010, 05:46 PM
 
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Where can you buy a home for 10-20 thousand in the USA plus if you're looking at buying acreage and developing AZ, Texas, New mexico is it....also Alaska if you can deal with the cold.


These are some of the last settlement frontiers in the united states, my plan is so far off the grid it isn't even funny. Yuppies and starbucks are not for me and neither is the rural undeveloped desert regions for most people.
 
Old 07-17-2010, 06:03 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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Where can you buy a home for 10-20 thousand in the USA plus if you're looking at buying acreage and developing AZ, Texas, New mexico is it....also Alaska if you can deal with the cold.

You can find a lot more for that price in Oklahoma or Arkansas than you can in Arizona. Same thing in the U.P. of Michigan and I think numerous other little places in the rural USA. AZ is not that cheap.

Cheap land is AZ is just junk land for the most part. Maybe suited for someone who wants to live in the middle of nowhere and way off the grid, so maybe it is for you.
 
Old 07-17-2010, 06:16 PM
 
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You can find a lot more for that price in Oklahoma or Arkansas than you can in Arizona. Same thing in the U.P. of Michigan and I think numerous other little places in the rural USA. AZ is not that cheap.

Cheap land is AZ is just junk land for the most part. Maybe suited for someone who wants to live in the middle of nowhere and way off the grid, so maybe it is for you.
I like the desert after 2 tours in Iraq became accustomed to it.......besides eventually I need to get off the dole attend college/trade school and start working again and paying tax. My dream is becoming a septic tank installer and with all the consideration/s AZ is for me....... waste-water tech is where the $$$ at!
 
Old 07-17-2010, 06:46 PM
 
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When it gets hot in S. AZ the hot get going.
And the other 98% who work?
 
Old 07-17-2010, 06:47 PM
 
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And the other 98% who work?
The ones who work in offices bring sweaters with them.
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